Kids need to learn how to cook.

I know I haven’t been great at getting my kids in to help in the kitchen recently. I work Monday – Thursday, and when I get home, I usually make something easy and fast. I can get it done faster by myself, and sometimes I just want to be by myself in the kitchen. I have taught my kids and 5 others all day, and I need some quiet.

However, it is good to get kids to help, and they all need to be able to cook some day. So it’s up to us to teach them. It also can be a fun bonding time. Some kids will actually love cooking. Who knows? Maybe, one of your kids will love it so much that they will get good at it and can cook for you!

So how do you get kids helping in the kitchen?

• Find easy recipes that they can make.
• Find recipes that they will succeed making.
• Find recipes of food that they will enjoy eating.
• Get them a fun recipe book.
• Buy them their own apron and cooking items.
• Have them make food items they can give to others.
• Make a big deal out of what they have made by praising them and talking about it to others.
• Have a schedule where they help cooking in the kitchen once a week when they are younger and have them occasionally make a whole meal when they are older.

One cookbook I was recently given so that I could give my honest review on it is called The Everything Kids’ Cookbook Updated Edition. Kids would love this colorful book with simple recipes. Simon & Schuster also let me make and share one of the recipes from this book called Peanut Butter Chip Muffins.

My 13-year-old came to the kitchen and helped prepare these muffins. We had them done in no time. They were good! My husband, who doesn’t like overly sweet desserts, liked these muffins. I had to eat them along with a glass of milk as otherwise they were a little dry.

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Peanut Butter Chip Muffins

Course: Bread

Servings: 12 people

Calories: 250 kcal

Author: Sandra K. Nissenberg

Ingredients

• 1 cup smooth peanut butter
• 1 large egg
• ¼ cup granulated sugar
• ¼ cup light brown sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 1½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• ½ cup peanut butter chips

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 375°F. Spray a 12-cup muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray or line the cups with paper liners.

2. In a large mixing bowl, use an electric mixer to combine the peanut butter, egg, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and milk. Beat the ingredients until smooth.

3. Add the flour and baking powder. Mix until just blended. Do not overmix.

4. Stir in the peanut butter chips with a wooden spoon.

5. Pour the batter into the prepared muffin tin so each cup is about two-thirds full.

6. Bake for 18–20 minutes or until the muffins are light brown on top. Using pot holders, remove the muffin tin from the oven and place it on a cooling rack. Cool 5 minutes in the muffin tin, then carefully turn the tin over to remove the muffins.

7. Serve warm or let the muffins cool before eating.

Recipe Notes

For a different twist, you can substitute ¼ cup chocolate chips for ¼ cup of the peanut butter chips.

Excerpted from The Everything Kids’ Cookbook, Updated Edition by Sandra K. Nissenberg. Copyright © 2002, 2008, 2020 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Photographs by Kelly Jaggers. Used with permission of the publisher, Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. All rights reserved.

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Working and busy moms are always looking for ways to save time in the kitchen.

Now that I work 4 days a week, I make a lot of easy, and sometimes not-so nutritious, meals. I love to make breakfast dinners as those are fast and easy! There are several ways to plan ahead so that we can eat nutritious dinners on those busy days.

Here are some strategies that may help save some time in the kitchen:

• Spend a day making freezer meals. Then you just have to stick them in the refrigerator the night before and bake them when you get home.
• Use your slow-cooker (35 crock-pot recipes) to make recipes that will be ready when you get home or your instant pot to make quicker meals (30 Instant Pot recipes).
• Make a menu so that you know what you are making each night and start the prep over the weekend.
• Have canned or preserved foods on hand (See recipe book below).
• Buy frozen foods that can be turned into easy meals. (See recipe book below.) These recipes can be made in under 30 minutes, but the meals are so much better than preparing frozen chicken nuggets.

One perk about sharing a weekly recipe, is that I often get to review new cookbooks. Of course, I give my honest opinion of the cookbook; and for the following two cookbooks, no monetary compensation was received.

I recently received 3 cookbooks from Simon & Schuster. One of them I will share next week, but the other two were called Self-Sufficient Living: Canning and Preserving and The 30-Minute Cooking from Frozen Cookbook.

I’m actually very excited about this book. Ever since moving to Florida, I don’t plant vegetables. I tried it once, and the rabbits ate everything. But this is not just a canning cookbook. It has some freezer recipes as well as some jerky recipes that I can do in my oven.

I also would like to try the soup recipes using a pressure canner. Those would be great during our hurricane season.

Here is the table of contents:

This cookbook (The 30-Minute Cooking from Frozen Cookbook) is perfect for those nights when you forgot to plan ahead. It takes items you would buy frozen such as fish, meatballs, tortellini and more and then incorporates them into a main dish. Plus, there is no pre-thawing required! If you are like me, you forget to take something out of the freezer in the morning. No need to worry with this cookbook! There are over 100 recipes that are for breakfast, main meals, dessert, and even some vegetarian meals!

Try one of the books out and let me know what you think of it! I think both of them are great, yet they are very different from each other. At first, I didn’t think I would enjoy the canning/preserving book much as I am not canning anything right now, but then I saw it had many other recipes besides just canning recipes, so that made me much more excited about it. And then I’m always for a meal that will take me less than 30 minutes to prepare! That’s a win for sure!

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Coronavirus has changed everything — including going on field trips. Many schools are staying on their campuses and not allowing anything or anyone from the outside into the school.

Many regular field trip locations are closed or not offering their regular programs. However, field trips are one of the activities that make school fun. They give children something to look forward to, and they can supplement the curriculum.

We have a tiny, tiny school at our church, and I try to do three field trips a year. We usually do one science field trip, one history field trip, and one miscellaneous fun field trip.

Since, we are trying to avoid contact with a lot of people, I decided that we would do an on-site science STEAM field trip for our fall field trip. We will wait to do our off-site field trips until 2021 and hope that conditions improve.

Here are my plans so far for our onsite STEAM field trip:

• We are going to do some fun food items that will be our lunch:
  • We will make our own pizza, and do these yeast experiments.
  • For dessert, we will make ice cream. I liked this recipe, and here is the science behind it.
  • We will use this Crazy Drinks Science Lab to make a fun drink. The book that comes with it explains the science in each drink. I’m thankful to Quarto STEAM Club that sends me some great STEAM activity books and kits to try out.

• We will use 3 kits that have been sent to me to review. I will let you know how they work after we use them.
  • The older children will work on putting together solar bots using this  8-in-1 Solar Robot Kit. I think my boys especially will love these.
  • The younger kids will learn about magnets with these rainbow Tileblox.
  • In my most recent Quarto Steam Club box, I got this SmartLab Toys Storm Watcher Weather Lab that we can set up to watch weather for the next few weeks.

• I also have had several books with STEAM ideas that have been given to me from Quarto Steam Club. The most recent box included these books:
  • Encyclopedia of Insects — If you have a child who loves insects or you are studying insects, this is a perfect book as it featured over 300 insects.
  • The Kitchen Pantry Scientist: Chemistry for Kids — I really like this book. I can see myself using this book a lot when I teach science. It had doable and interesting experiments. There is one that we might do for our field trip that would be used to study the Ph factor. It uses tumeric and red cabbage, and could be used in an art project.
  • Copycat Science was a little busy for me to enjoy reading, but I could see some kids loving it and being able to read it and learn just because they like the comic style of the book.
  • If your child has an interest in engineering (Adventures in Engineering), here is a book they may find interesting.
  • For the animal lover, you could always get the book, Animal Exploration Lab for Kids.
• I have other science experiment books that I need to look through to see if I want to do any of those experiments.

I think it’s going to be a super fun day, and we’ll be able to stay onsite! What are some fun science experiments that you have done?

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I had fun reviewing The DIRTY, LAZY, KETO Dirt Cheap Cookbook a couple of weeks ago.

The publishers gave me a copy of the book for me to give my honest review, and they also let me share a couple of the recipes from the book. I already shared Chi Chi’s Bankroll Breakfast Burritos; and this week I get to share a recipe for Alfredo Pizza — that’s also Keto!

This recipe is very easy if you use canned white meat chicken, prepared Alfredo sauce, shredded cheese, and riced cauliflower. You can have pizza — and eat Keto too!

Here’s how to make Fortune Alfredo Pizza:

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Fortune Alfredo Pizza

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

29 mins

 

Course: Main

Cuisine: Italian

Keyword: Keto

Servings: 8 people

Calories: 214 kcal

Ingredients

• 4 cups riced cauliflower
• 1⁄2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 2 large eggs, beaten
• 1⁄4 cup prepared pesto
• 1⁄2 cup prepared Alfredo sauce
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 1 cup shredded whole milk mozzarella cheese
• 1⁄2 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cooked and chopped
• 1 cup chopped fresh spinach
• 1⁄2 cup chopped green onion
• 2 tablespoons cooked and crumbled no-sugar-added bacon

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 425°F. Line a round pizza pan (14" in diameter) with parchment paper.

2. In a large microwave-safe bowl, cover and microwave cauliflower 4–5 minutes. Let cool 15 minutes.

3. When cool enough to handle, wrap cauliflower in clean dish towel or cheesecloth. Squeeze out as much moisture as possible. Return cauliflower to bowl.

4. Add Parmesan cheese, eggs, and pesto to the bowl. Mix well until a dough forms.

5. Using your hands, evenly distribute dough onto the pizza pan, ensuring dough is no more than 1⁄4” thick.

6. Bake 15–20 minutes until crust is golden brown. Remove pizza crust from oven.

7. Evenly spread Alfredo sauce on crust. Sprinkle with salt and red pepper flakes. Top pizza with remaining ingredients.

8. Return to oven. Bake an additional 5–10 minutes until cheese melts.

9. Slice pizza into eight slices. Serve warm.

Recipe Notes

• When adding vegetables as a pizza topping, loosely mix them first with cheese. This combination helps vegetables cook faster.
• Expect your pizza crust to be on the softer side. The cauliflower serves as a terrific base, but does not harden the same as other cheese-based keto pizza crust recipes.

Excerpted from The DIRTY, LAZY, KETO Dirt Cheap Cookbook by Stephanie Laska and William Laska. Copyright © 2020 by Stephanie Laska and William Laska. Used with permission of the publisher, Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

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